Sentences with phrase «evasiveness with»
Once he countered Cameron's evasiveness with detail it became much more evident.
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In an August 10, 2009 hearing before Judge Rakoff in a case involving alleged disclosure issues at Bank of America (bac), Rakoff responded to the SEC's evasiveness by stating: «You are not going to be particularly effective with this court by telling me what I already know, namely, that you filed a rather uninformative bare bones complaint.»
I attribute my ignorance not to his evasiveness but to my own deficiencies as an investigative reporter (Woodward and Bernstein, I'm not), the fact that he and I were essentially having a friendly chat rather than a hard core audit of his books (to which he probably wouldn't have consented at any rate), and the fact that I come to such an interview with only a layperson's understanding of the financial side of running a school food program and probably didn't know all the right questions to ask.
His evasiveness over discussions on BSkyB with Brooks and Murdoch will not lead to his downfall, but it makes him look slippery and untrustworthy — a PR disaster of which he will be acutely sensitive.
As the Staggers points out, there had been signs of Cuddas's intentions for months: the association with James Purnell, longtime David Miliband ally, David's commitment to an elected party chair, the job Cruddas wants, and his evident evasiveness towards others on the Left.
The difficulty is coming up with a reliable system to measure evasiveness.
He also knew that this very forthright woman, frightened though she was, would be impatient with explanations redolent of chart jargon, or with any hint of evasiveness.
When failed concert promoter Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) asks down - on - his - luck folk singer Jack Fate (Dylan) about the importance of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to American rock - and - lore, the inanity of the answer (and the evasiveness of Dylan's demeanour — «Well, it matters to someone, I guess») isn't mysterious so much as inane and disingenuous; even the evocation of social phenomena as important and galvanizing to roots rock and the inner city as the myth of Stagger Lee is tossed off with a wry flick of the hand.
Much has been made of his evasiveness, of the fact that he has spent his career flouting the art world's propriety: his continual refusal to settle on a dealer; the propensity to make himself unavailable to curators even in the midst of show preparations; to stage exhibitions, performances, and installations with no prior announcement.
In conversation with David Sylvester, Howard Hodgkin commented, «I want to get the sort of evasiveness of reality into my pictures.
The blue team was able to run and get away with it on that obscure site, where the public wasn't watching, but they won't be able to hide their evasiveness so easily on a site that is fully illuminated and observed by non-partisans.
«I found the Respondent's evidence to be replete with contradictions, evasiveness, constantly forgetful... untruthful, nonchalant, uncaring and detached.